研討日期	2014年2月15日上午10:00 ~ 下午1:00
研討地點	台大社會科學院26教室
題目	Parallel trade, product quality, and welfare
作者	Giorgio Matteucci, and Pierfrancesco Reverberi
文獻出處	Economics Letters, 2014, 122  pp.258-262
報告人	蔡明芳
參加人員	黃鴻、梁文榮、王光正、吳芝文、陳宏易、蔡明芳、彭正浩、高國峯、呂得成、王羿傑、許至乙、吳尚弈、施姵全
討論提要	We study the welfare effects of parallel trade (PT) considering investment in quality. We thus revisit the case for PT in research-intensive industries. We find that PT may raise quality, depending on how preferences for quality differ across countries. Conditional on quality, consumer surplus may rise (fall) in the PT-source (PT-recipient) country. While PT reduces ex post welfare, improving quality is a necessary condition for PT to increase welfare ex ante.
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